Case study
Automating Work-Order Processing for an Electrical Contractor
A custom web application that reads scanned work orders, fills in the forms and calculates cabling charges against the client’s rate list.
- Client
- Singapore Electrical Contractor
- Industry
- Electrical engineering and infrastructure services
- What we built
- Custom web application
What they needed
The client needed to digitise the processing of scanned electrical work orders.
Their workflow involved transferring information from each work order into forms, then calculating cabling charges against an existing rate list. Those repetitive steps were the focus of the project.
What we built
We built a custom web application that combines three steps:
- OCR to extract information from scanned work orders.
- Automatic population of the relevant form fields.
- Rules-based cabling price calculations using the client’s rate list.
Document extraction, form preparation and pricing calculations now run in one workflow.
What it does now
The parts of the workflow that used to need manual transcription and calculation are now automated: reading the scanned work order, filling in the form and working out the cabling charges against the rate list.
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